I want you to think of a little boy who would go down to the zoo everyday and sit and look at this huge male lion walking up and down inside the cage, a beautiful, magnificent specimen, a black-maned lion.

And then some naughty little boys would come down from the school and they would pick up stones and they would throw stones at this lion, and the little boy loved this lion so much, he would stand in front of the cage of the lion and try and protect the lion from the stones that were being thrown at him.

Spurgeon said, “All he had to do, that little boy who loved the lions so much, was to walk up to the gate and open the gate and let the lion out.

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Well, I said, “Lord, if I am going to do that I won’t make it.” And I felt The Holy Spirit say to me, “Well, leave one-seventh of your land fallow every year and then after seven years, the whole farm would have rested.”

And that is what I did, and you know, that is totally contrary to what I was taught at agricultural college. I was taught, “One year’s seeds, seven years weeds.”

You have to hammer that land so that the weeds ever come up.

But that is not what God said to me. So I honored His Word and I left one-seventh. But do you know what came out of that? The most beautiful crops you have ever seen.

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He had been thrashed by the communists and he had scars right across his back.

He then turned around and put his shirt on and he had their instant attention.

Unless you have been there, you can’t really understand what it is all about.

So that thing you are going through today might be an extremely important testimony in the time to come.

Stand firm.

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The old lady was very angry with me. She said, “Young man, I haven’t come to the front for this type of thing. I have come to the front because I want to be healed.”

I said, “I just feel in my heart that there is somebody that you haven’t forgiven, somebody close to you, a family member.”

And with that, she started to weep and she confessed her sins to God.

You know the next week she came back to church and she was radiant.

She was beautiful. She said, “Angus, I haven’t had a headache since that prayer of confession.”

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And then he said, “Gentlemen, you must pardon me. I have grown grey in your service and now find myself going blind.”

And with that gesture, there was silence over the room.

They say some of the generals started to weep unashamedly…

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“if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.”

Pray that prayer before you go out today and then look forward - look up, not look down, because your redemption is nigh.

And go and put your arms around those loved ones who are left behind and dry their tears and tell them that that loved one is not dead.

You will see them again, very soon.

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I remember like it was yesterday, we had one of our earlier Mighty Men Conferences on the farm.

There was an old gentleman who arrived in his little pick-up, his bakkie.

He was all by himself. He put up his little one-man tent and he sat, looking out over the farm.

Nobody noticed him particularly.

He was quiet and he was spending time in the presence of his God.

That night…

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I want to say to you, that one of the hardest times in my entire life was when my dear little nephew, Alistair Buchan, fell of the tractor that I was driving and was killed.

My brother and his dear wife were so gracious to me, I am eternally indebted to them for their comfort, but I was struggling and losing sight of eternal life.

I remember a neighbor coming over one day and saying to me, “Angus, I have come to ask you, do you have a shotgun?”

I said, “Yes, I do which I use for shooting vermin and wild pigs that were destroying my mealies.”

He said, “Can I take it for a while?”

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You know, I went out early this morning just as the sun was rising and what a glorious, beautiful summers day.

Jill has got a hedge of Jasmin. The scent was absolutely pungent, delicious!

The birds were singing in the trees and I thought, “Lord, what a beautiful day!”

And I remembered that Latin saying, “Carpe Diem” - make the most of the present time.

Seize the day, my dear friend.

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One of my heroes is a man by the name of William Carey.

William Carey was a cobbler and one day they tried to mock him a bit and they said, “I believe you are just a shoemaker.”

He said, “No sir. I can’t make shoes. I am a cobbler. I can only repair them.”

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I remember hearing a story - a man from a different religion once said, “We all serve the same god. He just has a different name.”

No sir! We don’t!

The difference between other gods and the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob is that He has a Son and His name is Jesus Christ.

Other religions don’t…

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He said, “Well, it is like two dogs in my stomach. There is an evil one and there is a righteous one, and they are fighting.”

And Hudson Taylor said to him, “And which one is winning?”

And he said, “The one I feed the most.”

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Oh my dear friend, the Lord God has made us as eagles to ride the thermals when the storms of life come against us.

Unlike that crow that is sitting on the power line looking for scraps on the earth, the eagle screeches with excitement when there are thermals stirring, caused by big storms are coming.

He gets excited and he spreads out his wings and he flies even higher.

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The preacher was adamant, He said,” I am a preacher of the gospel. It must be there. I demand to see God.”

The angel put the cowboy on his back and they flew to heaven.

He put the cowboy down on a floor of shining gold and then he heard a voice, so loud it was like a massive waterfall, like thunder and lighting.

“Who are you and what do you want here?”

It was God Himself. He was petrified. He didn’t move, he just lay there.

A second time the voice said,” Who are you and what do you want here?”

Just then, this petrified cowboy lying with his face on the floor heard footsteps coming from behind him.

Someone wearing sandals and the swishing of a robe.

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I remember like it was yesterday, we had that massive tent on the farm. Remember, there were 30,000 men inside and 30,000 men outside.

We had fully extended ourselves.

We had nothing left in the kitty, not even a cent, and the organising committee came to me and they said, “We need more speakers.”

I said, “We don’t have any more budget.”

They said, “If they can’t hear the message, what is the point in having the meeting.

Reluctantly, I went to the Lord and said, “Lord, we need more money.”

And I said, “Go ahead”, by faith, “and get the extra speakers.”

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There is nothing so sad for me as to see an old man holding on by his fingertips, the business or the farm or the ministry that he has built up and will not hand that baton over.

Eventually, the young man leaves and he goes somewhere else and makes his own way and the old man sits there and everything that he has built up disintegrates around him.

We really need to get out of the driving seat, walk around and get into the passenger seat and let your son or your daughter drive the car.

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I remember many years ago when I was doing my agricultural training in Scotland, that I would spend weekends with my Uncle Ronnie.

He was my dad’s brother and he was a very, very compassionate and good shepherd.

He had been sickly all his life. He never had much opportunity to go to school because he was always in hospital.

So he became a shepherd and a very good shepherd at that.

He was a compassionate man.

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And then he got off the train and he saw her but he got quite a shock.

She was a middle-aged woman.

She was very plain, quite poorly dressed. She was in a shabby green dress but she had a beautiful red rose.

He was very shocked. He was actually disappointed.

But he had to make a choice and he could have walked right passed her as she had never seen him either, but he didn’t.

He kept his promise and he walked up and he introduced himself to her and she said…

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I will never forget it as long as I live, one of the highlights of my preaching ministry, to see those wonderful people on their knees on the sand dunes in Mitchell’s Plain, asking God to send the rain and then it started raining.

Do you remember? And I don’t think it has stopped since then.

My young farmers, in the Western Cape area, say they are looking at the best crop they have had in many, many years.

God is a prayer answering Lord.

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On a Thursday night, he was relegated to speak to a few old ladies.

I love old ladies because they are prayer warriors, and they filled the front row of the church, all these old ladies but he was looking for men.

But you see, the lady who was playing the pump organ had a little boy of a about 13 years old, who was pumping the organ at the back and when the man of God spoke about the lost in Africa, his heart was on fire.

That boy was…

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